Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 3, 2007, 10:23 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708031121000.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <7v3az1qgdg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:
> 
> > 	Okay, enough arguing about whether the empty diff lines are
> > 	useful or not -- here's a patch to get rid of them.
> 
> I do not think this addresses anything but -p (i.e. textual
> diff) output.  If we _were_ to really do this, I think the patch
> I sent earlier today, with possible improvements I suggested,
> would be a better direction to go.

But I'd really think that what should be done (if anything has to be done at all) is to introduce a config variable which triggers the same logic in git-diff as was introduced in 2b5f9a8c0cff511f2bb0833b1ee02645b79323f4.

Ciao, Dscho